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Dru and I were recently featured on Herding Code Podcast. In the podcast we talk about everything from package management in general to Nubular (Nu) to other package management systems (OpenWrap, Bricks, and Horn, although horn was/is slightly different) to the possibility of Microsoft releasing a package management system. It was a good time and I enjoyed doing the podcast, but the herding code guys start recording at an insane 10:30 PM! I have no idea how I made it through the whole thing and was ......

I facilitated a discussion on Automating Your IT Shop at St. Louis Day of .NET. There was so much to talk about, we didn’t get to everything. Here are the notes I took while we were talking. Conversation Starter Questions What tools do you use to automate? What tools would you like to use? What tools would you like to explore (time dependent)? How do I know what to automate? Cost v. Benefit. Decision tree complexity. Rewritable process? How do I automate? What is the right amount of tech for the ......